One thing I noticed: the large number of posters promoting vegetarian protein sources, in order to conserve meat. Another: you know how gluten-free diets are more common nowadays? You'll find many posters in this collection referencing "wheatless" diets, and promoting other carbs like potatoes and corn. And finally, some of these would fit in quite well with my colleague Mark's Made By Hand book. Below, the poster from which the title of this gallery came: "Beans are Bullets."

Authorities say in recent weeks there has been an unprecedented wave of hate crimes targeting library buildings, books, and the people who read them. The officials told the New York Times they’d rarely seen such before. These crimes are intended to terrorize, and they follow a recent report by the F.B.I. which says hate crimes […]

Fidel Castro confessed on his deathbed to killing JFK, Prince Harry has impregnated his American actress girlfriend, Priscilla Presley has six months to live, and President Donald Trump will save 25 million jobs. Those are the headlines in this week’s tabloids, and it’s salutary to see Trump’s wild imaginings promulgated alongside equally fact-challenged celebrity “news.” […]

The Black Friday Mac Bundle 2.0 is one of the Boing Boing Store’s best-selling Mac bundles yet, and it’s about to come to an end. If you don’t get your copy now, here’s what you’ll be missing:This bundle comes packing 9 top-rated Mac apps in one package, at the hugely discounted price of just $23.99. […]

The Boing Boing Store’s Gift Guide is full of ideas for pretty much anyone in your life like hipster ice cub trays, Xbox controllers, Halo Boards, and even diamond necklaces. As always, all products in the Boing Boing Store come at great discounts, too. Shop by price bucket starting at under $20. Under $20:Bloxx Jumbo Ice Trays […]

Unlike traditional lighters, the SaberLight features an electronic plasma beam that’s both rechargeable and butane-free. This sleek lighter is even approved by TSA, so you’ll never be stuck buying lighters you’ll just have to throw away partially used. For some people, like me, this is a pretty big game-changer. The SaberLight’s beam is actually both hotter and cleaner […]

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I think it was the strangest moment after the events of 9/11 and the beginning of the (now nearly decade old) War on Terror was being told that the best way to keep up the homefront was to go shopping.

Imagine if the President had called on Americans to conserve energy, to reduce/reuse/recycle, to shop local and decrease reliance on fossil fuels?

Sad that, for a lot of people, the wake up call was the economy tanking.

Ok, I’m trying to imagine it. What difference would it have made to the issues of an economic recession caused by the disruption and uncertainty of the 9/11 attack?

in WWII, you had to grow some of your own food because MASSIVE amounts of food and material had to be shipped to soldiers overseas for a war effort. Everyone piles on Bush for not calling on Americans to “sacrifice” more, but that isn’t what people think works in a ‘recession’. Look at the old Jimmy Duranty “give a man a job” NRA piece. He tells the rich guy to stop driving his own car and hire a chauffeur.

There’s two thoughts at work:
1. By borrowing less and saving more, we would have had more money on hand, which would have either allowed us more room to ride out the credit default problem that came up later or would have mitigated it to some extent.

2. It would have rallied people around a common cause and group of ideals that could have permanently changed the course of human behavior. It’s easier in a time of crisis for a leader to say “Now is the time that we all come together and do what is right for our communities” because people want direction during those times.

That’s why people wanted Bush to ask for the things that mgfarrelly suggested.

We just had a chicken debate in the city (Winnipeg) and of course it got shot down. The City could have made some good money with permits and license fees, I don’t think anyone would have been against that. Hire inspectors to ensure good living conditions, and everyone could have been happy.

It might help your cause if you can present council with legislation that’s passed in other communities. Ann Arbor, MI has one that requires permitees to seek written permission from all contiguous neighbors (which can suck if you have crap neighbors). Ypsilanti, MI has one with a limited window for obtaining permits, but no requirement to get permission from neighbors.

I’m generally in support of the chicken lobby and we’re having the same debate in Kingston, Ontario at the moment. I do have some concern, however, that people are not being educated on the necessity for caution while dealing with chicken manure.

My sister has disseminated histoplasmosis caused by working on a small scale chicken farm. She is legally blind in one eye due to the lesions which are untreatable in her case, and she is developing lesions in her other eye. It’s a widespread disease in North America but most people are asymptomatic. Those who deal with poultry droppings are at a greater risk.

I’d like to know if any safe-handling routines would mitigate this risk and if there would be bylaw control over cleanliness for backyard coops before I sign any petitions supporting the cause. Needles in the middle of your cornea are not my idea of fun.

I would love a high res of this so I could print and frame one from a friend of mine who is an avid gardener, food activist, and husband of chickens. I went to the curators site and he seemed to forget the “monetizing your traffic” step.

Farmers who grow it will now typically say they grow “rapeseed”, however. In fact there used to be, in some small town in the Carolinas (IIRC), an annual Rape Festival that included a parade and the crowing of a Rape Queen and Rape Princess. (You don’t want to try googling any of that.)

No you are not, and as frogmarch replied in #10, it’s a crop that is celebrated in some interesting ways. For example, the Ministry album “Land of Rape and Honey” comes from the town Tisdale, Saskatchewan. That is their town motto, and they are very proud of their rape.

I live in the city. Small house, small yard. We have a small vegetable garden (3 raised beds about 4’x8) and some fruit trees. We also raise four hens. The maintenance is almost nil. Scoop out a small amount of chicken manure from the coop every day into the composter. Feed and water the hens, collect eggs. I do it before I walk the dogs in the morning. Out of that setup, I get a fresh egg for every person in the house each day. Veggies and fruit of unmatched quality (tree ripened fruit taste different from store bought) and far superior to what passes off as organic these days. Growing your own food is worth it. Sure I still shop for most of my food but home grown stuff is great. I learned to can and preserve the surplus. These are simple easy skills America is losing and that is too bad.

i really really love the “Will You Have a Part in Victory?” poster at the bottom of this page, and echo the call that it would be wonderful to have higher-rez versions of some of these posters. Or the uy could sell them — I would probably buy one.

We’ve been planting a garden every spring for the last few years and it’s easy and rewarding.
We also have limes, lemons and grapefruit trees.
The city of San Diego is pretty liberal about chickens. You’re not supposed to have a rooster, but even in our city neighborhood, there are a few people that are raising hens for eggs.
We’ve considered it, but we have dogs so we might need to build a pen in the back corner.

Speaking of this subject, while out tending my garden recently two elderly gentlemen stopped to admire it and commented “With a Victory Garden like that, how can we lose?” I was deeply amused by the comment, and touched.

I really do believe that if we who are able were to spend more time growing our own food, it’d help out the country on the whole. Less consumption, healthier food, more outdoor activity. Indeed, how can we lose?

The curator has updated some of the images to compensate for the poor “stitching” done by the original scanning software. I have an updated version of the poster featured on the site, that is not available yet on good-potato.com. I can email it over if you provide an address.